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Today animals, tomorrow humans, Waikato drug delivery specialists innovating...
The only way Simcro could grow in the animal pharmaceuticals delivery space was to be innovative Will Rouse decided when buying the Hamilton-based company three years ago. As one of only a handful of...
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Stroke therapy via computer games, food could have more value-added, stories...
A new ‘Able-X’ air mouse and handlebar, linked to a computer game, is offering stroke and brain injury survivors a rehabilitation tool they can use by themselves, that is proven to speed their...
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Specialised signaling tests provide quicker and better tool for cancer...
In Greek, the word symansis means ‘signalling’, and it is this use of the term that underpins the business of Symansis (NZ) Ltd, producers of special reagents that indicate whether particular drug...
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The word innovation has little meaning
The words ‘intellectual property’ is used to batter CRI’s and universities around the head according to Phillip Capper. The director of Wellington-based WEB Research says part of the problem is the...
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We need more bang from our science buck says Treasury
We need to get much more fusion and synergy between our scientists and firms according to The Treasury. There’s enough statistics to show that while our research output is pretty good by OECD...
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Biological control gets around insect resistance, set to take on the world
The use of biological control methods using entomopathogens such as fungi is one way around the increasing pesticide resistance being developed by major crop pest insects according to Stephen Ford....
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Without collaboration, world dairy industry couldn’t compete or innovate...
It may seem counter-intuitive that a wildly competing world dairy industry got together in Auckland to collaborate, but without such round-table discussions, there would be no foundation on which to...
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Commercialisation network has some challenges to overcome
As a national network of commercialisation centres comes into being, to help speed and improve the transfer of good university ideas into sellable products and services, it is worth remembering the...
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Are CRI statements of core purpose customer-oriented enough – NZ Institute?
Very good, but where is the customer service bit asks Rick Boven about the Ministers’ recent announcement of the CRIs statements of core purpose (SCP)? The director of the New Zealand Institute says...
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‘Inside Innovation’ recognises that we’ve got a lot of work to do
It was called ‘Inside Innovation’, but Wellington’s policy-peoples’ group hug could have just as easily been called ‘Insider Innovation’. It was high level stuff, leavened with a presentation by Weta...
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